The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 93
At length the Vizier suggested going further on to a pond which lay beyond the town, and where he had often seen a variety of creatures, especially storks, whose grave, dignified appearance and constant chatter had often attracted his attention.
Who acts: Vizier, pond, storks · What happens: suggest, go, lie, see, attract, attend · To what, where: length, pond, town, variety, dignified appearance
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizier, pond, storks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Vizier | det |
| 4 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | nsubj |
| 5 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 suggested | xcomp |
| 7 | further | further | ADV | _ | 8 on | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pond | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pond | det |
| 11 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pond | acl:relcl |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seen | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 seen | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 suggested | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 variety | det |
| 25 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 creatures | case |
| 27 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 variety | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 storks | punct |
| 29 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 30 storks | advmod |
| 30 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 creatures | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 grave | punct |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 grave | nmod:poss |
| 33 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 storks | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 appearance | punct |
| 35 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 appearance | amod |
| 36 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 chatter | cc |
| 38 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 chatter | amod |
| 39 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appearance | conj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 attracted | aux |
| 41 | often | often | ADV | _ | 42 attracted | advmod |
| 42 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 storks | acl:relcl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 attention | nmod:poss |
| 44 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 attracted | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the Vizier | length | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the Vizier not said here | a pond | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | a pond | the town | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond town=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Vizier | a variety of creatures | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer variety=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | attract | past · perfect · passive | storks and storks and storks's grave's grave not said here | dignified appearance and constant chatter | Vizier's attention obj; often property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | attend | Vizier | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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